Straus will also be called on to speak at industry conferences
and events. He is a member of Innovest’s investment committee overseeing the
firm’s investment research and due diligence process. He has more than 20 years
of experience in the asset management industry.

Prior to joining Innovest, Straus was a senior vice
president, portfolio manager, and director of trading at Icon Advisors Inc., a
mutual fund investment management company in Greenwood Village, Colorado. He
has managed mutual funds and separate account investments for institutions,
advisers, and high-net-worth clients since 2003, and served on Icon’s investment
committee.

He began his career in finance at the American
Stock Exchange and Salomon Brothers Inc., both in New York. Straus is a member of the
CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Colorado.

Straus
earned an M.B.A. from the University of Denver and holds a chartered financial
analyst (CFA) designation.